Tag: Reflection

I’ve been sucked into watching Hoarders on TV lately. As I was putting away dishes this evening, I thought about the changes I’ve been making to my health. (I vlog about it on my SparkPage). While I want to make all these good changes all at once, it’s just not realistic.

I don’t know if you’ve watched Hoarders, but one of the things they do is bring in a counselor and a home organizer. One to hand-hold through the emotional discussion, the other to orchestrate the beginnings of the clean-out. I have been really impressed by two things: 1) the home organizer insists that the hoarder is the one to make the final decision about whether to throw, give, or keep the items in question, and 2) a clean sweep of the house almost never “fixes” the hoarder.

So, as much as diet plans and quick fixes have the allure of being rescued from what ails me, when it comes down to it, if I’m not the one making the changes, then they’re not gonna stick.

Like this:

Today was a BEAUTIFUL DAY!! The weather was close to perfect in my book!

Today, we reunited with an old friend, and made two new ones. It was a big day in my book. Something as simple as a snack and a chat closed the gap on a lot of years.

We also opened a new chapter of our lives as the in-laws settle into a new home. Watching J5 explore and declare his appreciation and approval kicked off the new era of going to “154”*!

As I contemplate this theme: “Big”, I realize I don’t really care for the word that much. I think I’m going with the idea of noting “the big stuff” that happens in my day. But often, the “big” stuff is really “little” stuff that I just really want to identify as significant.

I’ve managed to get TWO WHOLE DAYS posted…only 28 to go! Cheers!

*For those who don’t know J5 – he often identifies locations by their “numbers”, rather than by their purpose…

Like this:

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God….There was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but He was never inconsistent with His Father. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is the divine life that continually makes more and more discoveries about the divine mind. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Like this:

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory… – Phil 4:19

…Cherish need because it is part of our relationship to God and His Universe. God has planned to meet our every need, has created the need within us, so God can supply….
– The Language of Letting Go, by Melody Beattie, p. 316